The Senior Manager, Business Control supports ASM's core ALD business and new products KPUs, within a fast-paced semiconductor equipment environment. As a key finance partner to BU GMs, this role provides critical insights for decision making and drives process excellence for a team of high performing managers and analysts.

This is a hands-on, highly visible role requires strong organizational, communication, and analytical skill. As a people manager, this role is expected to not just be a high-performing individual contributor, but a developer of talent that can organize a team around common purpose and vision.

Culture note: We operate with small, high-impact teams. Ownership is expected, accountability is clear, and impact is visible.

Key Responsibilities

Business Partnering & Decision Support

• Serve as a trusted finance partner to BU GMs for ALD and New Products
• Translate data into clear insights, scenarios, and recommendations that influence decisions.
• Drive financial performance discussions through rigorous portfolio management.

Planning, Forecasting & Performance Management

• Own full P&L support for the business, including revenue, margin, OpEx, and strategic investments.
• Lead annual planning, monthly forecasting, and close process; communicate variances and key drivers of financial performance to senior management.
• Prepare and maintain P&L projections and management reporting packages for monthly and quarterly reviews.

Governance and Controls

• Maintain internal control procedures related to R&D capitalization.
• Ensure adherence to financial policies and best practices; IFRS familiarity preferred.

Analytics, Automation & Continuous Improvement

• Automate recurring activities (e.g., data extraction, forecasting models, reporting workflows) to reduce manual effort.
• Support design and implementation of new business process flows in a global, matrixed environment.
• Contribute to cross-functional finance initiatives that elevate planning, reporting, and business insight. Proficiency with AI tools is ideal.

Team Management and Performance

• Manage KPU controllers and financial analysts in monthly process execution. Set and communicate clear timeline, deliverables, and expectations.
• Take ownership of annual goal-setting and quarterly OKRs for your team. Track progress and prioritize based on business need and team's workload.
• Develop you team for long-term career objectives. Performance manage against those objectives on a quarterly basis and own rewards conversations at year end.

What Success Looks Like

• Predictable outcomes: Accurate, actionable forecasts that improve business predictability.
• Influence: Strong partnerships with ALD and New Products KPU heads and GMs; insights that shape decisions.
• Transparency: Clear performance narratives and disciplined cost control.
• Efficiency: Increased automation and scalable reporting that frees time for value-add analysis.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• 10+ years of relevant finance experience, including FP&A, forecasting, and month-end close.
• Strong analytical, modeling, and problem-solving skills with a hands-on mindset.
• Proven ability to partner with and influence cross-functional stakeholders at multiple levels.
• Experience with fully integrated ERP systems (SAP preferred).
• Strong communication skills and experience presenting insights to management.
• Managerial experience in operations finance

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA, MBA, or equivalent professional certification.
• Experience in a global, matrixed organization.
• Background in semiconductor, high technology, or manufacturing environments.
• Experience with data visualization and advanced financial modeling.

Our Culture & How Finance Works

We emphasize ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement. Roles are broad in scope, expectations are ambitious, and results are visible.

In Finance, this means:

• Business ownership of forecasts, P&L insights, and recommendations-not just reporting.
• Practical judgment-financial rigor applied with business context.
• Decision-driving analytics-insights that influence leaders, not just explain outcomes.
• Candor and transparency-direct, fact-based communication built on trust.
• High autonomy and accountability-comfort with ambiguity and a bias for action.

Why Join Us

• High-impact, visible role supporting a critical growth business.
• Daily partnership with senior leadership across multiple regions.
• Exposure to complex business models in a global, fast-evolving industry.
• Strong emphasis on analytics, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Clear career pathways within FP&A, Business Control, and broader Finance leadership.

Apply today to be part of what's next.